Talk:Oklahoma State University School of Fire Protection and Safety

Removing copyrighted material

I am removing the sections of this article that closely paraphrase a non-free copyrighted source. The source is a master's thesis, Fifty Years of Fire Protection Training at Oklahoma State University, that was posted online until two days ago (the domain name expired) at http://firesafetyalumni.com/Docs/OSU_History_Mary's_Theses.html. The material is written like a book chapter, with headings like "Dreams take off" and sentences like "Oklahoma firefighters demonstrated a pioneering spirit and a willingness to change with the times.", rather than an encyclopedia article.

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The source says: "Modern firefighting, as we know it, began in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London in 1666. That fire, which ravaged the city for five days, left 373 acres of ashes on which stood thirteen thousand homes and eighty-seven churches as well as other structures. Dr. Nicholas Barton, who rebuilt many of those homes, guaranteed to replace a house of his construction destroyed by fire. In that manner was born the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. Other cities, especially those in the American colonies, learned from London’s disaster and began to organize companies of firefighters, to experiment with firefighting equipment, and to pass and enforce fire prevention laws. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin founded the first successful fire insurance company in America, the Philadelphia Contributorship, known from its fire mark as the Hand-in-Hand Company."

The article says: "Modern firefighting erected from aftermath of the great fire of London in 1666.[6] That fire ravaged the city for five days, left 373 acres of ashes on which had stood 13,000 homes and 87 churches. From this disaster, the Phoenix Fire insurance Co. came into existence. Other cities, especially those in the American colonies, learned from London’s disaster and began to organize companies of firefighters, to experiment with firefighting equipment and to pass and enforce fire prevention laws. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin founded the first successful fire insurance Company in America, the Philadelphia Contributorship."

The information is wonderful. Articles about schools are often short on history. Hopefully someone will rewrite the material for this article. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:55, 2 January 2013 (UTC)